How about from the Lord that they are about? Some folks are so intent on the altar that they can’t see Christ any other place... a slight to an omnipresent God....
Hey Hi tech. What I learned from them, is that salvation is in a relationship with God, and certainly not in some church membership.
At the beginning of the fourth century, 49 Christians in northern Africa went to their deaths rather than miss the weekly Mass (Cf. Message of the XI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, October 22, 2005). "We cannot live without the Eucharist" was a statement repeated by early Christians
How about from the Lord that they are about? Some folks are so intent on the altar that they can’t see Christ any other place... a slight to an omnipresent God...
That is because the First Christians were not part of a church/cult in which the primary function of its leaders - wrongly distinctively titled “hiereus" (priests) - was to change bread and wine into human flesh and blood to be offered as an atonement for sin, and consumed in order to obtain spiritual and eternal life.
Instead the primary primary function of its leaders - called presbuteros (senior/elder) or episkopos (superintendent/overseer) - was that of prayer and preaching the word, in contrast to feeding with literal food, (Acts 6:3,4) as i so doing "thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained." (1 Timothy 4:6)
And while the First Christians "could not worship, or pretend to worship, a mere human being who claimed to be God because he was Caesar," neither did they look to a supreme head in Rome as the first of a line of infallible popes.
Among many other things the are part of the deformation of Rome.